33865 (2025). Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan to the Associate Minister of Education

Written Question

Published date: 22 Jul 2025

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Document type:	Written Question
Parliament number:	54
Question number:	33865 (2025)
Question asked:	09 Jul 2025
Member asking:	Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan
Portfolio:	Associate Minister of Education
Minister replying:	Hon David Seymour
Answer received:	16 Jul 2025
Status:	Question Answered
Reply type:	Reply
Document ID:	WQ_33865_2025
Document guid:	ce72b558-e324-4537-8a2a-4d224caee04a

33865 (2025). Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan to the Associate Minister of Education: How much food, if any, has been reported as wasted in the Ka Ora, Ka Ako programme for May 2025?

Hon David Seymour: I am advised by the Ministry of Education that the number of surplus lunches and amount of waste (measured by weight) across the programme has been requested in the end of Term 2 survey. Once closed, the findings will be collated and published on the Ka Ora, Ka Ako portal. One of the external model suppliers, the School Lunch Collective (SLC), publishes surplus meal data on their website daily here: https://www.schoollunchcollective.co.nz/. In month of May 2025, the SLC delivered 2,216,226 meals. Of these meals 4.8 percent were collected from schools and returned to commercial production kitchens.